Posted on 10/06/2004 7:16:30 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican
For all the horror stories we’ve heard about euthanasia in recent years, there are still many people who think of it as “mercy killing.” Those people need to take a long, hard look at what’s happening in the Netherlands right now. It’s very difficult to find anything merciful about what Dutch doctors are doing to children and infants.
According to Wesley J. Smith in the Daily Standard, Groningen University Hospital in the Netherlands now officially allows doctors to euthanize children under twelve, “if doctors believe their suffering is intolerable or if they have an incurable illness.” That includes non-fatal illnesses and disabilities. Whether or not the child can consent is irrelevant—what child under twelve would have a clear idea of what he or she was consenting to?
As Smith writes, “For anyone paying attention to the continuing collapse of medical ethics in the Netherlands, this isn’t at all shocking. . . . Doctors were [already] killing approximately 8 percent of all infants who died each year in the Netherlands. That amounts to approximately eighty to ninety per year. Of these, one-third would have lived more than a month. At least ten to fifteen of these killings involved infants who did not require life-sustaining treatment to stay alive. The study found that a shocking 45 percent of neo-natologists and 31 percent of pediatricians who responded to questionnaires had killed infants.” Smith adds that at least a fifth of the killings were performed without parental consent.
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This is sick!
european enlightened intellectual ping
I can tell you that a Doc wouldn't do any more after mine.....
I suppose we should be grateful that people in the Netherlands aren't also cooking and eating their children after they murder them....
This is the obvious result of the "wisdom" of judges.
Once judges decide that murder is legal inside a woman's body it's only a matter of time before it becomes legal outside of it too.
Look for our own Judiciary to copy this ruling since some of them so love the European judicial systems.
sick ping...this is too much!
Kerry's hoped for Allies ping.
The French Revolution led to socialism, where atheism, ruthless political scapegoating, deadly persecution of the weak and worship of the central state were the focus.
The Nazis were part of the European slide into barbarism. And the slide was not halted in 1945, only delayed for a little while.
The logical conclusion of the "right to die" insanity.
If the "right to die" advocates get their way here, this sort of thing will be commonplace in the USA.
It may be sick but this is our future.
Actually it is also the past. The Nazis did this after WW1 and throughout the 30's.
Not from that, Esther Ruth, which sustained Esther and Ruth....
Satan.
Try the enemy of our souls, satan himself. He is the destroyer. And he hates children.
This is a Preview of Coming Attractions for the United States.
If the state becomes responsible for the cost of health care, the state will look after it's interests. The interest of the state is served by minimizing cost by eliminating the sick and the feeble, or anyone who represents more costs than can they can reasonably be expected to provide in tax revenue. State responsibility for expenses sets up a perverse incentive. Keeping this in check will be the job of the electorate. But would it not make more sense not to put the state in the position of having such a perverse incentive?
Ultimately the state will grind the people down and have it's way, so it is very important to make sure the state's interest is the same as the people's interest. This is not at all true with nationalized health-care.
Sick.
It has already been proposed here that we use organs from children who are not brain dead.
This is what happens when people start allowing infanticide, ie abortion. Suddenly inconvience becomes a justifiable reason for murder. How can anyone okay ending the already short life of child. I think that anybody who approves of giving women a choice should take a long hard look at what "choice" has brought to the Netherlands
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